I have trouble with relationships, and socially have my limits until I need to withdraw and go home/rest.
I'm on 4 medications for treatment of bi-polar disorder or bi-polar type symptoms.
I do get consumed by activities.

Now.... the highlights

- I have an elaborate sci-fi based fantasy life (started at about 4 yrs to present 37), it's more of a need than a choice. I can let my fantasy completely encompass me for hours; and if I don't, the fantasy life thoughts inject themselves in to my daily life to the point where I do lose focus when driving sometimes; I lose conversations, even some time during a movie in a theater is lost and I have no idea what happened for the last, 3-4 minutes.

- I find certain sounds entrancing. I focus on them and stay very still, not even blinking. It lasts for only a couple of minutes, and I find the experience extremely enjoyable. I can snap out of it with little effort, it feels like an extreme relaxing comfort and I don't want to snap out of it.

- I'm senstive to sirens, motorcycles, and any bright lights at night (not in total darkness), and lights to the level of house lights to heatlights.

- Music, tv shows, ect. with a repetitive event or pattern, I usually have a moderate need to see it/hear it to the end, even if I don't like it - but I'm getting better with that.

You might start to suss out the average member of this site, but we're a fraction of the asperger's population and a self-selected sample at that, so we're not generally representative of people with asperger's, just of people at Wrong Planet.

_________________"In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it."
-- Randy K. Milholland

There ain't no average aspie. I have a big long list of aspie symptoms filed away and about half of them apply to me, other people on this board may have a different set of symptoms and more or less from the list. Try one of the online tests and see how you get on.